TITLE: kde2_and_kde3
LFS VERSION: 3.x
AUTHOR: Jeroen Coumans
SYNOPSIS:
(1 tab) How to install kde2 and kde3 next to each other.
HINT:
This hint describes how you can add KDE 3 to your existing KDE 2 installation.
I suggest you take a look at the kde hint or the BLFS section for installing
KDE. I assume you use the following directory setup:
/opt/qt2
/opt/qt3
/opt/kde2
/opt/kde3
For KDE 3, you first have to install qt-3.x (where x=latest). This is my
build script for qt-3.x:
#!/bin/sh
bzcat qt-$VERSION.tar.bz2 | tar xv &&
pushd qt-$VERSION &&
export QTDIR=`pwd` &&
export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin &&
./configure -prefix /opt/qt3 -xft -xrender -no-stl -thread -no-g++-exceptions \
-system-libmng -system-libpng -system-libjpeg -system-zlib -qt-gif \
-qt-imgfmt-jpeg -qt-imgfmt-png -qt-imgfmt-mng \
-L/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include &&
make &&
make install &&
popd &&
rm -rf qt-$VERSION &&
echo "/opt/qt3/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf &&
ldconfig
Don't blindly copy the ./configure line, you'll probably have a different setup
than me. Use ./configure --help to see what each option does.
When compiling KDE 3, start with arts, next kdelibs then kdebase. Install
kdeaddons after kdenetwork and kdemultimedia. The other packages can be
installed in arbitrary order.
Important: set the appropriate variables before installing the packages.
export QTDIR=/opt/qt3
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3
When configuring, you can use --prefix=$KDEDIR.
Installing kde is straightforward, and you can find lots of info on www.kde.org.
Don't forget to add /opt/kde3/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. Also, you
should comment out /opt/qt2/lib and /opt/kde2/lib in this file to avoid
library conflicts (I had some strange errors which disappeared when I didn't).
Next thing is configuring kdm to allow the selection of either a KDE2
session or a KDE 3 session. If you followed Remy's big_kdm hint, you've allready
setup KDM.
Replace the kde) case with the following:
kde2)
export QTDIR=/opt/qt2
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde2
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$QTDIR/bin
exec $KDEDIR/bin/startkde
kde3)
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3
export QTDIR=/opt/qt3
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$QTDIR/bin:/opt/kde2/bin
exec $KDEDIR/bin/startkde
For a flawless cooperation between the two, the most important variable is
KDEHOME. If you don't set this, your configuration files will be updated to kde3
and you won't be able to start kde2 anymore. If you don't want to reconfigure
all your settings, copy all the ~/.kde/share/config/k*rc to ~/.kde3/share/config
Also, it doesn't matter if you want to run the KDE3 version of kdm, but don't
forget to adjust /etc/X11/xdm/XSetup accordingly.